StefMaci

On February 23, 2026, I will be speaking at the University of Pittsburgh for the Distinguished Italian Fulbright Lecture “Tourism Goes Digital.”

The talk examines live virtual guided tours as an emerging communicative practice in tourism and digital technologies.

Excited to be a keynote speaker at Vital Signs (University of Parma, 10–11 Feb 2026).

My (online) talk:
“AI and the Reconfiguration of Linguistic Structures and Communicative Norms in Medical Discourse.”

How is AI reshaping medical English and the norms of healthcare communication? Let’s discuss.

Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence This volume illustrates how the adoption of discourse approaches can cast light on the complex and often subtle ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) discursively operates. The focus is on careful...

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Happy to share that my chapter
“Revenge porn: a new form of online gender-based violence discourse. A case study”
has just been published in Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence 🎉
(De Gruyter Mouton)
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🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

On December 5th I’ll be in Chieti–Pescara for the Languaging Diversity conference, where I’ll talk about accessibility in tourism.
I’ll be sharing reflections on how live virtual guided tours can help make travel experiences more inclusive and open to everyone. ✨

Thrilled to teach my Fulbright module at the University of Pittsburgh this upcoming term:
Analyzing Tourism Communication in Transforming Media Ecosystems

We’ll explore how tourism storytelling changes across traditional and digital media.

#Fulbright #TourismCommunication #DigitalMedia

Excited to be giving tomorrow’s plenary talk “Empowering Learners and Teachers through Corpus Linguistics” at the COPLUS Conference, University of Milan. Grateful for the opportunity to discuss how corpus approaches can enhance both teaching and learning

Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media

“ideological alignment, rather than actor prominence, plays a central role in structuring online discourse and shaping the spread of information in polarized environments “
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

Congrats!!!

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

Large Language Models (LLMs) can mirror expert judgment but often rely on word patterns rather than reasoning. A new study introduces epistemia, the illusion of knowledge that occurs when surface plausibility replaces verification. PNAS: ow.ly/sobq50Xcv9f www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Translating Tourism This engaging textbook provides an in-depth examination of tourist discourse and communication and a guide to translating tourism texts. Through analysis of the linguistic, intercultural, and sociall...

Excited to announce my new book Translating Tourism (Routledge), co-authored with Cinzia Spinzi 🌍✈️

The book explores how tourism discourse is translated, adapted, and mediated.

📖 30% discount code: 3FVRD2MJ3
📚 Free inspection copies available for instructors.

🔗 www.routledge.com/Translating-...

That’s me in Turin at the 32nd AIA conference, speaking of digital tourism

Not at all. This is an oversimplification of ‘interpret’, which, following your and CED definitions, seems a synonym of explain. Interpretation requires contextualization, understanding of intent, and value judgment. The latter can’t be done by AI, which cannot tell what is right or wrong.

AI can certainly explain, but not interpret, in the sense of assigning a meaning to something, which is always relative, because AI does not know what is right or what is wrong, does not have feelings or positions. In this discussion, what is missing is the definition of interpretation.

I enjoyed the first part of the talk. I do not really agree with the final part, when you said that AI is good for interpretation. I think this clashes with the fact that AI is stochastic. But l your talk can be the very much needed starting point for further discussion & research about this

Guess what
#UAB #barcelona
#genderandtranslation
#internationalconference

Guess what
#UAB #barcelona
#genderandtranslation
#internationalconference

Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics

What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Still buzzing after an amazing #CL2025 conference. Great research, great people, great chats. Thanks @robbielove.org and all the organisers for making it happen!

Corpus Linguistics 2025 Presentation slides and reproduction materials for CL 2025 presentation “Finding structure in multivariate data” Hosted on the Open Science Framework

In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y

Me (again) explaining how gender neutrality can be realized in grammatical-gendered languages
#CL2025

That’s me, speaking about Climate Change
#CL2025

So sorry to say goodbye!
#CL2025

Ready, set, go!
Pascual’s promising talk is live now!
#CL2025

I was looking forward to this presentation!
#CL2025

What counts? An inspiring talk about the wonder of numbers by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social
#CL2025

Oh gosh! Sorry!!!